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Tyranny Is Here
Paul Craig Roberts Sept. 27, 2000
Tyranny is creeping up on us. If you don't believe it, consider the most
prominent hallmarks of the Nazi and Communist regimes, which sought to
supplant democracy in the 20th century.
In National Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union, there were no First
Amendment rights. No one could voice an opinion contrary to the politically
correct views enforced by the Gestapo and the KGB. Media and education were
used to instill politically correct thinking and bring denunciation upon
anyone who departed from politically correct thinking.
This is precisely the situation that exists today in the vast majority of
American colleges and universities. Verbal and facial expressions that are
contrary to political correctness result in sensitivity training (a form of
brainwashing) or expulsion for the offender, who may have done nothing more
than laugh. If the source of mirth is an ethnic joke, a blonde joke or a
hilarious claim by a multiculturalist, the hapless offender discovers that
his constitutional protections do not exist.
In Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, there were victim groups that were
championed and oppressor groups that were suppressed. In Germany, the
"victims" were Aryans, who were said to be under the financial hegemony of
Jews. In the Soviet Union, the hegemonic group was the bourgeoisie, who
allegedly held sway over an oppressed proletariat. In both countries,
victims were permitted to exercise violent language and actions against
oppressors.
In the United States today, white heterosexual able-bodied males constitute
the hegemonic group. Everyone else is a member of a victim group.
In Germany and the Soviet Union, the abstract and imaginary group roles of
oppressor and victim were given a frightful reality by ideologues. Race and
class categories became the basis for discrimination and new legal systems
that favored victims' groups with preferences.
On American campuses, multicultural ideology has revived the concepts of
race and class oppression, and added new ones based on gender and sexual
orientation. Men oppress women, and heterosexuals oppress homosexuals.
According to multiculturalists, our culture and values reflect nothing but
the arbitrary domination of society by white heterosexual males. University
of Pennsylvania professor Alan Kors says that, thanks to multiculturalism,
"half a century after the defeat of Nazism, we distinguish by blood and we
equate blood with culture." We now think like Nazis and explain our society
and culture in terms of race (and gender) hegemony.
Tyrannical states attack the family. Both the Nazis and Communists are
infamous for state intrusions in family affairs. In the United States,
similar bureaucratic and political intrusions come from family courts. Most
Americans are unaware of the existence of these relatively new "courts."
Howard University professor Stephen Baskerville is the leading authority on
these courts. He says family courts are "the most dangerous institution
posing a threat to constitutional rights in our society. The only parallels
are the ideological-bureaucratic dictatorships of the last century."
Family courts claim immunity from the Constitution and from scrutiny by
federal courts. Baskerville describes them as follows:
"Their proceedings are secret and unrecorded. Their orders are enforced by
bureaucratic police who do not wear uniforms and whose sole responsibility
is to conduct surveillance over families and private lives. As such, these
police are akin to secret police. By the very nature of their jurisdiction,
these courts and police are the most intrusive and invasive arm of
government, and yet they are accountable to virtually no one. Such an
institution is intolerable in a free society."
Recently a family court judge ordered the parents of a 7-year-old boy in
Berne, N.Y., to put their child on Ritalin, a behavior-control drug. The
alternative was to be found guilty of "educational neglect," an offense that
would open the possibility of their child being seized by Child Protective
Services - a Hillary Clinton "village" institution straight from the pages
of the Gestapo. The child suffered serious side effects from the drug, but
parents no longer have the right to decide what is best for their children.
Tyrannical states assault the individual in the inner recesses of his
consciousness. He is not permitted to think certain thoughts or to express a
prohibited thought privately to anyone.
Recently, Janice Barton encountered a Spanish-speaking couple while leaving
a restaurant in Manistee, Mich. She turned to her mother and said, "I wish
these (ethnic slur) would learn to speak English." An off-duty deputy
sheriff overheard the private remark, followed the woman to her car and
noted her tag number. Janice Barton was sentenced to 45 days in jail for her
thought crime.
This couldn't happen in a free country.
Dr. Roberts' latest book, "The Tyranny of Good Intentions," has just been
released by Prima Publishers. COPYRIGHT 2000 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.
Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin fellow at the Institute for Political
Economy, research fellow at the Independent Institute and senior research
fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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